KSW Uberground Pro Typeface
A versatile all-caps font with multi-lingual (extended Latin and Cyrillic) support by Koshawa Foundry. It combines the advantages of German and British schools of the early 20th century.
The balance of originality, readability, geometric modernism, and restrained brutalism creates a unique and recognizable style. This font is an excellent choice for titling, branding, posters, signs, navigation, industrial design, and more.
The German precision of the ‘English’ font combined with a truly British design.
The precise geometric grid is based on early specifications of “Engschrift” developed by the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN) in 1927. However, its proportions transformed to an even stricter width-to-height ratio of 1:2.
Glyph forms took inspiration from the font known as ‘Mandatory’, introduced by Charles Wright type foundry in 1935 and still used on UK license plates nowadays. For utilitarian purposes, even commonly similar characters in this font are noticeably distinguishable from one to another, making the font easy and quick to read.
